Can Supplements Harm Your Health?
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
4.9 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Supplements are so common these days that it’s easy to forget just how powerful they are. You can go to the grocery store, pharmacy, and most prominently, online to find just about anything you need. I think it’s great that access to supplements is so widely available, but the downside to supplements being so readily available is that they are often taken without as much consideration. Because we can add them to our cart so easily, we may not realize that they could cause more harm than good depending on the supplement and the person.
Again, supplements are powerful, they are an amazing resource to have, but my goal with this episode is to teach you how to analyze supplements that you’re interested in or that are being marketed to you and know go through a series of questions to have an idea of whether or not they are a good fit for you.
I have a bonus episode this week inside Patreon that takes this a step further and highlights certain conditions and supplements that CAN be helpful. You can join my patreon community at patreon.com/hormonehealingrd.
As always this is not medical advice. I’m a dietitian but I’m not your dietitian so please talk with your medical provider before making any changes.
This episode covers:
- Supplements & the influencer era
- Questions to ask yourself when considering a supplement
- Commonly recommended supplements that could cause more harm than good
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the RU. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD. |
| 0:13.2 | If you enjoy this podcast and you want to keep learning, check out the podcast Patreon where I share a bonus episode with additional downloadable resources each week. |
| 0:22.4 | You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes. |
| 0:31.3 | All right, episode three for season five, can supplements harm your health? Like, are there |
| 0:36.7 | supplements out there that can cause |
| 0:38.9 | more harm than good? That's what we're going to focus on today. I did an episode like this |
| 0:44.5 | over two years ago for season one of the podcast. Very popular, but it definitely needs some |
| 0:50.6 | updates. I'm like, there's supplements that I want to add to this list and just more nuance. So if you're like, where'd that old episode go? It's back. I just wanted to |
| 0:58.2 | redo it, update it, and provide not just like, okay, here are supplements that we maybe should |
| 1:04.0 | reconsider, but also like, how do you be a little bit more critical of supplements you're taking? |
| 1:10.5 | Like, how can you analyze them more? |
| 1:12.1 | And that's really my goal with this episode. And you may think, like, why does, like, why does |
| 1:17.3 | like supplements matter? Why does it matter if we take certain things? I think it's, we forget how |
| 1:22.6 | powerful they are. They're so common. You can go to the grocery store, pharmacy, online, like literally anywhere, |
| 1:28.8 | and you can get just about any supplement that you want. And while I think that access is really |
| 1:34.0 | important and great, I also think that they are so readily available that sometimes we just |
| 1:41.3 | take supplements without even thinking twice about it. |
| 1:45.5 | And because we can add them to our cart so easily, |
| 1:47.7 | we may not realize that they could cause more harm than good, |
| 1:50.4 | depending on the person and the supplement that they're taking. |
| 1:53.5 | So they're powerful. |
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